Spam and malware from NCKA?

What's been up with the site the last couple of days; on every visit I get bombarded with tracking cookies. Just now my security software nabbed a trojan. All of it seems to be coming from the ad bars.............?

I think you might be right. I've experienced a slow down on this site and the cookie monster too

What's been up with the site the last couple of days; on every visit I get bombarded with tracking cookies. Just now my security software nabbed a trojan. All of it seems to be coming from the ad bars.............?

What security software are you using? I am not seeing anything.

I'm using Google Chrome and have experienced the same thing.Might be A hacker!

What's been up with the site the last couple of days; on every visit I get bombarded with tracking cookies. Just now my security software nabbed a trojan. All of it seems to be coming from the ad bars.............?

What security software are you using? I am not seeing anything.

Trend Micro PCillin. The trojan only popped up once. The cookie attack happened a few times but it seems to have settled down. Either that or I blocked them all 

I'm ignorant, so thanks for the warning!  I haven't noticed anything...

Malware installers often buy google ads to push there badness. Not much I can do about it unfortunately.

Which tracking cookie did you see? Not all of them are bad. For instance, Doubleclick.com tracks your surfing habits and, each time you visit a website, it determines which banner ads to display once you reach the website. So it places a cookie on your computer. You can opt out of being tracked, but Doubleclick will still place a cookie on your computer that contains settings to ID you as not wanting to be tracked by them. There are three or four other outfits that do the same.

Also, not all banner ads involve tracking cookies, as evidenced by the NCKA site.

The only time it happened to me was the first time I clicked on this thread. Go figure.

we use forefront security, and it sometimes takes 2-3 minutes to load a page while the security scrubs it

It hasn't happened yet today, but several times on Wednesday my download window opened and asked if I wanted to save or run a file called "160600.swf". Of course I clicked cancel each time, but there was definitely something on the site trying to load itself onto my computer.

I Googled that 160600.swf and it came back as a Shockwave Flash banner ad for The Nature Conservancy.Shockwave Flash items don't harbor viruses "usually", they are those moving ads that slow down your computer by swallowing up processor usage.



If I could recommend, switch to using Firefox as a browser instead of Internet Exploder. It runs faster and less prone to malware and virus crap. Google Chrome is fast but unprotected. Not recommended for use yet.

If you insist on using IE and are having problems, go empty your temporary internet files for starters. get a good slow anti-virus program, and backup to an external harddrive for the inevitable day.

I Googled that 160600.swf and it came back as a Shockwave Flash banner ad for The Nature Conservancy.Shockwave Flash items don't harbor viruses "usually", they are those moving ads that slow down your computer by swallowing up processor usage.



If I could recommend, switch to using Firefox as a browser instead of Internet Exploder. It runs faster and less prone to malware and virus crap. Google Chrome is fast but unprotected. Not recommended for use yet.

Thanks for checking on that! Also, I am using Firefox when these downloads are occurring.   

Next step:  get a MAC! 

Next step:  get a MAC! 

I was waiting for that.. 

Z